My Interview on ComicBookDaily!

I almost forgot! On August 26th I did an interview with Pete DeCourcey of ComicBookDaily.com to get some exposure before FanExpo 2010! Click on the image below to check out the interview!

Dark Avengers - My Variant Sketch-Cover

Lance left me an extra copy of the blank variant of Dark Avengers No.1. Here's what I drew on it - the Dark Avengers Ms. Marvel. My good buddy Adam at Heroic Dreams comic shop in Pickering is now the proud owner of this one.

FanExpo 2010!!!

Well, I'm back from FanExpo and, I have to say, it was absolutely amazing - a totally life-changing experience, I cannot wait to go back again next year. Dreadful sold out completely; Saints & Warlords sold about 30 copies and I even sold some sketch-cards! I met a ton of ridiculously cool celebrities, all of whom were incredibly friendly and lovely to talk to. Here are a few highlights.

That's our table there by that pillar (click on image to enlarge)

Lance and I - WE'RE AT FANEXPO!!!

Lance and I hard at work at our table.

Sweet Jesus, Barry Mercer was RIGHT! WE FOUND MERMAIDS!!!

Lance with Gregg Taylor - voice of the Red Panda!

Lance and I with the first person to buy a copy of Dreadful!

The first guy to buy all three books!

My cousin James and his girlfriend, Melissa stopped by - AND BOUGHT OUR BOOKS!

Even Cat Woman bought a copy of Dreadful!

The dude at the table next to us commissioned a Harley Quinn sketch card from me.

I drew a sketch card of Lance Henriksen as Bishop from Aliens. My buddy Sean bought it and LANCE HENRIKSEN SIGNED IT!!!

Oh, did I mention? Lance Henriksen STOPPED BY OUR TABLE!!! Nicest guy in the world by far.

Me with Heather Langenkamp (Nancy from the original Nightmare on Elm Street) and the sketch card I did for her.

Kaylie McDougal stopped by my booth - and bought a copy of Dreadful!!!

Lance and I with J.Bone - creator of Bone. I'm not sure why I'm standing like that.

Two Clone Wars PSCs I did for a guy in the last hour of the con.

CBC Points North Interview - August 23rd, 2010

Check it out! I managed to score an interview on CBC's Points North with Barry Mercer on August 23rd, 2010 to talk about "something called 'FanExpo'" and how I'm going to it! I've no idea where Mr. Mercer got the idea that there would be mermaids...  Lance, I said more about you but they edited it out. Special thanks goes to my uncle for recording this off the net.

I'm "Breaking News"!!!

Check it out! I did an interview with the local paper - the North Bay Nugget - today;  getting a little exposure on the comic scene before I head off to FanExpo next week. Special thanks to Maria Calabrese for taking the time interview me! Click the image below to see the full article. The article along with featured images will run in the Monday edition of The Nugget.

Goin' to FanExpo!

Well, ladies and gentlemen, as you know I will be at FanExpo in Toronto - August 27th to 29th. While I have been boasting that, at the table, I will have for sale copies of the first issues of Saints & Warlords and Dreadful, I can finally prove it: as of yesterday, both books have officially gone to print! Here is what you can look for at the table.

Saints & Warlords, naturally, was written by Stephen Lindsay of Jesus Hates Zombies fame; Dreadful is a full-length, fourty-page book featuring three short stories - two by me and one by the great Lance Sawyer. Both books will be $5.00 flat and, if I may say so, are well worth the coin. I will also have copies of Zombies Vs. Cheerleaders issue 1 featuring the banner I did inside. If anyone is interested in ordering a copy, please contact me at slatermark33[at]hotmail[dot]com - I will put one aside for you and have it signed by myself and Lance after the con. We hope to see you at FanExpo!

Steve4Mod

Here are the five cards I did for the Steve4Mod from 5Finity. I'm really stoked with how the Green Goblin and Marv cards turned out.

It's All Comin' Together!

Check it out! The official floor-plan for FanExpo has been released and YOU CAN SEE WHERE LANCE AND I WILL HAVE OUR TABLE!!! We will be at table A126 - there you can find artist exclusive sketch-cards, copies of Saints & Warlords and Dreadful #1, as well as original prints and sketches! Come check us out - we'd love to see you. Click on the image for a larger view. Can you believe it!? We're right in the middle!!!

A Dream Come True

Check it out, boys and girls - a dream has finally come true! I was recently invited to work on the Clone Wars: Rise of the Bounty Hunters sketch-card series, coming soon from Topps/LucasArts. I will be doing 100 cards for this series and I am friggin' stoked! At last I get to to work on an official Star Wars series!

MixTape!

It's July 31st, 2010 - I can finally post these, yaay!!! Here are the [approved] cards I did for the MixTape set from 5Finity - headed up by the one-and-only Jim Mahfood. I'm really stoked with how these cards turned out, I hope ya dig 'em. 

Aalya's ZvC Return Card Commissions!

Here are two more Zombies Vs. Cheerleaders return cards I just finished up for a friend out in Ottawa. If they look a little familiar it's because she requested two designs I did for cards from the original set (a little bit different, of course). The "He loves me for my brain" card has been altered to make the female character look like the client. Hope ya digs!

Zombies Vs Cheerleaders Return Commission

Here's the latest Zombies Vs. Cheerleaders Return card I just finished up. I was originally asked if I could draw Ash from the end of Army of Darkness blowing away a ghoul; I said that would not be possible as it could be copywrite infringement, but what I could do was draw a cheerleader in a similar uniform blowing away a zombie. Turns out, that was just as good! Hope ya digs.

Dreamers of Darkness Return Commissions - Jacob Marley, Krampus, Sexy She-Devil

Check it out - here are some newly finished Dreamers of Darkness return cards! They were done for the same person that requested the Yeti and the Mothman. This time he requested Jacob Marley, a Krampus, and a Sexy She-Devil. I'm pretty stoked with how they turned out. Hope ya digs!

Interesting side note: A Krampus is actually a creature from Eastern European folklore who accompanies Santa Clause! Apparantly he usually goes around at the beginning of December to scare naughty children into being good. If they're still naughty by Christmastime, he takes the children to Hell in his basket. Eastern European folklore is awesome! =)

Zombapple

For a larf, once I'd shot up my zombie cards, I decided I'd like to try shooting an apple. Had I shot a regular apple, it would have been something of a waste, so I carved a zombie face into it first. The zombapple is not for sale; it's currently rotting away in a wheat field. It's dead it's... it's all messed up.

PSCs - Zombie Headshots - Post Bullets

Here they are - all shot up! If anyone is interested, drop me a line; they're going for $30.00 each and there're only TWO LEFT!!!

PSCs - Zombie Headshots (Pre-Bullets)

Last week I decided to finally check out Tony Moore's website (I'm a huge Walking Dead fan), and I noticed his most recent post was a set of sketch-cards he did for charity. They were zombie headshots that Tony had literally shot and auctioned off. I thought to myself, "I could do that!", and I did! This past weekend, my finacee and I went down to her parents place and, while we were there, I used her dad's .22 calibur rifle to fire ten shots into each of my own zombie headshot cards. Here they are, pre-bullet holes; finished sketches and then bloodied up (red food colouring). Hope ya digs!